UPDATE: Just heard from eBay and they are saying that this rumor is absolutely, categorically not happening. I was pretty confident of my source on this one, but rumors are rumors and it looks like this one was vapor vs. substance. Apologies to Lorrie and I'm happy to hear you'll be with eBay for the foreseeable future!!
Original post follows:
I'm hearing from non-eBayers in the Bay that Lorrie Norrington, President of eBay International, is leaving eBay for Yahoo! where she'll be running products.
This is interesting on many angles:
- Why is Lorrie leaving eBay?
- Admittedly eBay has issues, but Yahoo!? This could be a frying pan/fire situation.
- Will Yahoo! hiring away a senior eBay person sour/put stress on their so-far sun-shiney partnership?
BAD NEWS!!! She has ruined ebay the best venue ever...ashame!!
Posted by: bob c | August 20, 2008 at 09:42 AM
Awwww Man. I thought she was hittin the road and maybe we'd get our old ebay back!
Dag on it!
That stinks!
Posted by: HUH | July 10, 2008 at 03:24 PM